Upcoming Webinar | August 4 | Using Surgically Resected Brain Tissue to Study the Physiological Maturation of Human Neurons
How complex human cognition arises from neurons exchanging electrical impulses is one of the great questions in neuroscience and one to which I have dedicated my scientific career. During my doctoral training, I had the exciting opportunity to directly interrogate the electrical properties of live human brain cells in tissue recovered from neurosurgical procedures, revealing […]
MariPen Yeatts is a Biomedical Engineering PhD candidate in the laboratory of Taner Akkin at the University of Minnesota. The Akkin Lab develops non-contact optical imaging technologies designed to study tissue structure and function with high spatiotemporal resolution. A particular emphasis of the lab is neural imaging, including optical tractography of the brain and optical […]
Dr. Z. Gordon Jiang is a transplant hepatologist and physician-scientist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. His research investigates lipid metabolism in liver diseases such as alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). Dr. Jiang’s lab develops human cell-based liver models that illuminate how hepatocyte differentiation and regeneration are altered in disease, with the ultimate goal of identifying new therapeutic strategies.
Over the past two years, his team has advanced the use of Precision-Cut Liver Slices (PCLS), leveraging both healthy and diseased human tissues obtained via liver transplantation. In this webinar, Dr. Jiang will present technical refinements in the PCLS platform, insights into the biology of liver slices in culture, and emerging applications in translational research.
Dr. Johad Khoury is a physician-scientist specializing in internal medicine and pulmonary medicine. After earning his M.D. from the Technion School of Medicine in Israel, he completed his internship and residency at Rambam Health Care Campus, followed by a clinical fellowship in pulmonary diseases at Carmel Medical Center. He later became a senior physician at Carmel, where he established the first post-COVID clinic in northern Israel, and developed the pulmonary division at EMMS Nazareth Hospital.
Dr. Clíona McCarthy, a Senior Research and Development Engineer at Stryker, will present her research on Microindentation of Fresh Soft Biological Tissue. With a background in nursing and biomedical engineering, and a PhD focused on vascular tissue characterisation, Dr. McCarthy brings a unique perspective to this critical area of biomedical research.
Often heralded as leaders in the field, the Allen Brain institute performs pioneering research on all manner of brain tissue. Working with brain tissue can often be as frustrating as it is rewarding. Slicing brain tissue presents many challenges. The tissue is a combination of soft and fibrous regions. For over a decade, researchers at […]
Dr. Francesco Travascio is an Associate Professor at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of the…
